From H. C. Watson [16 May 1864]
Summary
Cover containing some seeds mentioned in the letter to H. C. Watson, 28 May [1864], f.2 (S 4512).
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 142: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13891H |
From Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin [20 May 1864]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [20 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: A7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3366 |
From W. E. Darwin [after 19 May 1864]
Summary
[Outline sketches of pollen from long- and short-styled yellow cowslips and from a red cowslip.]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 19 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 108: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4369 |
From H. E. Darwin to W. E. Darwin [18 May 1864]
Summary
CD would like to see Rhamnus, as an American species is dimorphic.
Sends red cowslip pollen to be measured.
Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [18 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4442 |
To W. E. Darwin [14–17 May 1864]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [14–17 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: A3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4479 |
To W. E. Darwin 3 May [1864]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 3 May [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: A8, A10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4480 |
To Daniel Oliver 4 May [1864]
Summary
Thanks for DO’s Lessons in elementary botany [1864].
Asks him to inquire whether there are any twining species of Passiflora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 4 May [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 48 (EH 88206031) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4481 |
To W. E. Darwin 5 May [1864]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 5 May [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4483 |
From W. D. Fox 5 [May 1864]
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 [May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4484 |
From John Scott 5 May [1864]
Summary
Encloses MS of his paper ["On individual sterility of Oncidium", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 162–7].
His next will be on Passiflora, Disemma, and Tacsonia [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 197–206].
When he receives proofs of his Primula paper he will add CD’s case about equal-styled cowslip.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 May [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4485 |
To Richard Kippist 6 May [1864]
Summary
Recommends paper by John Scott to be read at Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist; Linnean Society |
Date: | 6 May [1864] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4486 |
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6 May 1864]
Summary
CD has been so ill they must discourage visit by WDF. Recovering slowly with new treatment.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [6 May 1864] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 143) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4487 |
From W. E. Darwin 6 May 1864
Summary
Diagrams of short- and long-styled Pulmonaria under magnification.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: A75–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4487F |
From William Jenner to [William Walmisley Baxter?] [after 7 May 1864?]
Summary
Prescribes "Sod. exsic." with the podophyllin for CD.
Author: | William Jenner |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | [after 7 May 1864?] |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4488 |
From E. A. Darwin 7 May [1864]
Summary
Henry Holland sends thanks for Zoonomia.
Sir Henry would not expect podophyllin to be good for CD.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 May [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4489 |
From A. R. Wallace 10 May 1864
Summary
On the Borneo cave exploration.
ARW will send his contribution to theory of origin of man. The vast mental and cranial differences between man and apes, whereas structural differences in other parts of body are small. The problem of explaining diversity of human races along with the stability of man’s form during all historical epochs. Discussion with "Anthropologicals" [following reading of ARW’s paper, "The origin of human races", before the Anthropological Society, 1 Mar 1864].
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B12–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4490 |
From Henry Trimen 10 May 1864
Summary
Cannot give information about the box of Oxalis bulbs that his brother [Roland Trimen] has forwarded to CD.
Author: | Henry Trimen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4491 |
From W. E. Darwin 12 May [1864]
Summary
Observations on style length of 150 flowers of Pulmonaria [angustifolia]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 105.]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 May [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 110: A66–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4492 |
To Roland Trimen 13 May 1864
Summary
Oxalis plants have arrived safely [see 4347].
CD regrets his mistake about Disa; will correct it.
Thanks RT for his additional facts about Disa.
Is recovering slowly from ten months’ illness.
Asks whether Strelitzia reginae grows in gardens at the Cape. Suspects it must be fertilised by a bird.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
Date: | 13 May 1864 |
Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 59) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4493 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 May 1864
Summary
Is burning to hear CD’s reaction to Wallace’s excellent paper on man ["Origin of human races and the antiquity of man", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
Wallace’s disclaimer of credit for natural selection is high-minded.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 218–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4494 |
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Bennett, William | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (4) |
Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (7) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Harvey, W. H. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Jenner, William | (1) |
Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
Scott, John | (3) |
Trimen, Henry | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Watson, H. C. | (2) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Darwin, W. E. | (9) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Fox, W. D. | (2) |
Scott, John | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (44) |
Darwin, W. E. | (16) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Scott, John | (5) |
Darwin, Emma | (4) |